American Protestants were afraid of the increased catholic immigration since <u>they felt threatened by the idea of America becoming a Catholic country. </u>
- On the one hand, Catholics believed a different Christianity than Protestants. Protestants, as opposed to the Catholic church, thought the following:
- Less hierarchy in church structure.
- The Bible and, not the sacraments, as source of revelation from God
- Jesus as the only necessary intercessor with God.
- There was an prejudice from anti-catholics that has to do with social class or status of the inmigrants. <u>Protestants from upper classes</u>, believed that the inmigrants were poor, therefore, they associated them with crime, danger and laziness.
- The fear from the American protestants created by the massive flow of catholic inmigrants, was so big that even a popular national organization, the <u>American Protective Association</u>, was founded to promote anti-Catholicism.
Since Thomas Jefferson was a democratic republican, he didn't want the government to have all the power. Therefore, he limited the powers of government by getting rid of the alien and sedition acts and lowered taxes
<span> </span>CORE which was
founded by James Farmer began using sit-ins as a form of protest against
restaurants that were refusing to serve African Americans. This form of protest
had been popularized by union workers in the 1930s. CORE hoped to use to desegregate
restaurants that refused to serve blacks.
Answer: C is the answer. The Soviet Union and Comminist China.
